Notices by Peter Gleick (petergleick@fediscience.org)

As World Water Day approaches, more signs of the growing #water crisis.

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-johannesburg-water-crisis-weather-fa8c921c6a063a31aec37e05864d61fb

Remember, voting for Biden also means voting for the experienced, talented, ethical team he's brought to Washington.

Do you remember the massively incompetent, corrupt, and anti-government cronies and thugs Trump brought the first time around? And how many of them are now in jail?

I'm sorry, but have top government officials always been this dangerously stupid and incompetent or is this a new thing? Florida's health officials will get children killed.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/unvaccinated-florida-kids-exposed-to-measles-can-skip-quarantine-officials-say

How ironic is it that Reagan supposedly "won" the Cold War (false, but that's the GOP narrative) only to have the current GOP surrender the country to the Russians today.

Can you imagine what this country could have been like if the poor and middle class had received that $50 TRILLION??

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

You know what leader has absolute immunity from the law?
Putin.
That's what Trump wants.

#Navalny

Today, for the win...

Michigan repeals anti-union laws.
Wisconsin overturns blatant GOP gerrymandering.
Pennsylvania legislature swings democratic.
Dems flip Santos' congressional seat.

Excellent news. My friend and climate science colleague Michael Mann, attacked and defamed for years, has won his defamation court case against two repeat, unrepentent, and nasty climate deniers.
@MichaelEMann

https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/08/michael-mann-wins-defamation-trial-climate-deniers-rand-simberg-mark-steyn/

I just saw someone call cryptocurrency "digital coal" and I'm down with that.

More proof that time travel doesn't exist because if it did, someone would have gone back in time and brought Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson back here to slap Trump upside the head...

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For many years, the cheapest source of electricity has been investing in improving energy efficiency -- simply the idea of doing more of what we want with less electricity.

But truly, the cheapest source of electricity is not spending electricity on things we shouldn't be doing at ALL, like cryptocurrency mining.

https://heatmap.news/sparks/bitcoin-crypto-electricity-consumption

Tip of the Day!

Here is a reminder to everyone [rightly] pissed at the incredibly high cost of peer-reviewed journal articles behind paywalls:

If you send an email to the lead/corresponding author (whose contact is almost always provided in the article, or easily found with google) and ask for a copy of the article, the author will almost universally be delighted to send a copy [legally] to you, free.

We authors LOVE it when someone asks for a copy of our articles!!!

This, rather than "Trump barely ekes out a win in New Hampshire" is how the media is going to play this??!

Trump barely got half the GOP votes and fewer than projected.

I don't actually care, since I think Trump is a far, far weaker candidate in the national election than Haley, but it's a sign of seriously distorted media coverage.

You thought #COP28 was a shit show because it was hosted and headed by a petrostate ?

Well #COP29 just said "hold my beer" -- it's not only hosted and headed by a petrostate, but apparently no women are on the organizing committee.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/15/cop29-climate-summit-committee-appointed-with-28-men-and-no-women-azerbaijan?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco&s

Where are the headlines saying "93% of Iowa Republicans didn't vote for Trump"??

I'm not sure Trump winning just barely half of the 14% of Iowa Republicans who bothered to vote is the amazing victory the media is reporting.

The Wall Street Journal oped page continues its decades-long unbroken streak of being absolutely terrible.

Is there anyone here who doesn't know someone directly who has COVID, or who doesn't actually have it themselves, right now?

Tell me again how finance people are disconnected from the real world?

"What a third world war would mean for investors."